Prof. Baz is on leave.

Avner Baz was born and grew up in Israel, on a kibbutz, where for many years he was a cowboy. Being a true cowboy, he both philosophized all the time and thought that there was nothing for him to learn at a university. Later he started a construction business in Israel, and was horrified to find that one could easily spend a lifetime thinking about commerce. He finally decided to go to the university, where he started by studying physics and math.

Avner has written about ethics and aesthetics, about aspect perception, about judgment, about Kant and Wittgenstein and Cavell and John McDowell. His philosophical ambition, at present, is to dispel the widespread belief that the insights and procedures of ordinary language philosophy can safely be ignored by current practitioners in the mainstream of analytic philosophy.

avner.baz@tufts.edu
617-627-2842
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